So you want to use gsutil in your crons but running into problems? Here's the solution:

Gsutil Cron Configs

The most likely reason is that cron runs in a very limited environment and doesn't have access to gsutil or to gsutil's configuration.To fix this you should set your Path variable and the gsutil configuration inside your script like so:


#!/bin/bash
PATH=path/to/gsutil
export BOTO_CONFIG="/path/to/.boto"

#rest of script here


To get the Path type these commands in your shell
echo $PATH
gsutil -D ls 2>&1 | grep config_file_list 

Then just copy those to your path/to/gsutil and export BOTO_CONFIG lines

Thanks.

Thanks 😄. Very helpful!